Wire twister

[Dakota]

I've been starting to rough-in new wiring harnesses along with 2 sets of speaker wires for the rear shelf.  I started to twist each pair of speaker wires together by hand to make them a little neater, but that got old quick.  I've seen people on TV use drills to twist wires together, but never paid much attention to the details.

There are probably dozens of ways to do this.  My solution was to use an available long Allen wrench.  The open end made it easy to loop wires around it, but a solid loop would work too.  One end of the wires was folded over and taped together.  Then some more tape was used to keep the loop centered on the handle.   The other ends of the wires were held separately (runs longer than your wingspan are a two person job).  The ends of the wires have to be held separately and loosely enough to allow for the wires to rotate (spin) while the other ends twist together.  Hold the loose ends close to the drill, start the drill at low speed and then slowly back away from the drill as the twists are formed.

You'll have to un-kink the twisted wires in several places and do some "touch up" twisting by hand here and there, but it took me less than 5 minutes from start to finish on a 10+ foot wire run.  And the best part was I didn't have to buy another tool to do this. 

I will add that my wife was able to operate the drill without interrupting a phone conversation.   I think there was a sarcastic comment from her along the lines of "the things I have to for that car" but I wasn't really listening.   

[Rich G.]

Sometimes you gotta think outside the box!

[GoodysGotaCuda]

Looks good, I've just chucked the wires in the drill before and twisted them. It worked pretty decently.

[7E-Bodies]

From a 35 year electrical guy...Super idea!